Blog posts in 'JavaScript Language' category

LoopBack is a powerful framework. As we know, “with great framework power comes great framework documentation.” When you know what you’re looking for in the docs, it’s easy to find. But
discovering what’s available can be a challenge for a tool a... More

When we discuss APIs and LoopBack, often we’re talking about external consumers, but you can use LoopBack APIs on your own site as well. For example, one cool way to use a LoopBack REST-based API is to power client-side charting for your web site.... More

I recently watched an insightful talk from Rob Pike where he shared his experience attending Lang.Next, a conference focusing on new and upcoming trends in programming languages. While there, Rob noticed how many presenters focused on things they ... More

Most developers understand that JavaScript does not have a notion of datatypes: it’s often referred to as “dynamically typed”, “weakly typed,” or even “untyped.” The distinction is mostly academic, and the bottom line is when you declare a varia... More

In the last tutorial, we wrote a Node program using Babel. This allowed us to use ES6 features now and experiment with new language proposals in a backwards-compatible way. We looked at testing, linting, and running programs in production.
Now le... More

I have a confession: I hate native mobile development. Most of the reason why I started working with NodeJS was my struggles with managing mobile app development for a small startup in 2012. Back then, native mobile development struggled with pain... More

From CoffeeScript to ClojureScript to PureScript to CobolScript to DogeScript (woof woof!), JavaScript is the write-once-run-anywhere target for many forms and styles of programming. Yet, its biggest compile-to-language today actually isn’t any... More

What is LiveSet?
LiveSet is an AngularJS module that makes it easy to build real time applications. We created it so you can focus on building your app instead of cobbling together several libraries and frameworks. Unlike other real-time librarie... More

Lets take a closer look at the new syntax that ES6 brings to help with more explicit variable and argument declaration and assignment. The current state of affairs is pretty straight forward: on the left hand side you have a variable name, on th... More